| Date: 1991 Designer:
Robert Slimbach Foundry:
Adobe Location:
California, USA Current equivalent:
Adobe Minion Pro Technologies:
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
The first Multiple Master typeface. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting Ubiquity:
Very widely used Category:
20th Century Serif Roman
Stress: Angled
Serif: Oblique | | Design history:
A highly successful text face with a wide range of variants, including small capitals and ornaments, designed by Adobe Systems' chief type designer. Initially intended as a replacement for Times Roman, Minion is extremely compact and therefore economic to use with long texts. Minion, named for a size of type in the sixteenth century, was reissued from Type One Postscript in 1991 as a three-axis multiple master font. Multiple master was an intelligent, but ultimately unadopted technology that allowed for a variation of design axes within the typeface; in Minion's case for weight and optical scaling between type sizes. There is a newer, better version called Minion Pro for Opentype. | |  | |  |
